Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect. William Barnes
William Barnes (1801-1886)
Category
Books
Date
1879
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3225000
Summary
Bibliographic description
xi,[1],467,[1],32 p. ; 20cm (8vo). Grangerised book. Numerous cuttings, postcards, photographs pasted in. Ink and pencil manuscript annotations, with additional notepapers inserted. Provenance: not indigenous. Titlepage inscribed: "Monica from James Cross Sturminster Marshall Sept 1923" [i.e. James Cross (1847-1931?), Vicar of Sturminster Marshall, Dorset]. Binding: publisher's green cloth, gold lettered.
Makers and roles
William Barnes (1801-1886)